Digital Health Data at Risk From Manager Support, Study Finds

Insufficient funding and lack of executive support are mainly responsible for security breaches involving patients’ electronic health records, a study found.

Executives at health-care companies and providers must improve cost assessments to include payments from class-action lawsuits, said the report released today in Washington by the nonprofit American National Standards Institute. Its members include Kaiser Permanente and data-security sellers such as Microsoft Corp. as well as the U.S. Defense Department and the Food and Drug Administration.